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Hvalur 9 harpooned two fin whales, Iceland's first commercial catch since 2023, after two seasons with no hunt, as the government prepared legislation to end whaling.

Coast Guard and police special forces boarded the Paul Watson Foundation's Bandero and arrested its captain after it entered Iceland's territorial waters and closed on the whaling vessel Hvalur 9, ignoring orders to leave.

Hvalur hf. ended Iceland's first commercial whaling season since 2023 after 93 fin whales in 94 days, with bad weather keeping its two boats in port for about 25 days, and the government preparing a permanent ban.

The International Whaling Commission's biennial meeting, its 70th, opens in Hobart, with a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary proposal and a pro-whaling 'sustainable use' resolution among the items before it.

Iceland's government plans to put a bill permanently banning commercial whaling before the Althing, which would close the legal route for fin whaling despite the five-year licences issued in 2024 and leave Norway and Japan as the only whaling nations.